Overview
- Rethinking Social Epidemiology is one of the first texts that links “evidence to action” to ensure that social epidemiologic research can meaningfully affect social and health policy change
- This book focuses on producing actionable evidence on social inequalities by expanding upon current practice and introducing new social epidemiologic methods
- Unlike any other social epidemiology texts, this book offers a philosophically informed approach to major scientific debates within the field
- This book is applicable to a broad audience as it is written for and by social epidemiologists as well as non-academic users of social epidemiologic knowledge
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To date, much of the empirical work in social epidemiology has demonstrated the existence of health inequalities along a number of axes of social differentiation. However, this research, in isolation, will not inform effective solutions to health inequalities. Rethinking Social Epidemiology provides an expanded vision of social epidemiology as a science of change, one that seeks to better address key questions related to both the causes of social inequalities in health (problem-focused research) as well as the implementation of interventions to alleviate conditions of marginalization and poverty (solution-focused research). This book is ideally suited for emerging and practicing social epidemiologists as well as graduate students and health professionals in related disciplines.
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Context
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Research Tools in Action
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Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rethinking Social Epidemiology
Book Subtitle: Towards a Science of Change
Editors: Patricia O’Campo, James R. Dunn
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2138-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-2137-1Published: 05 October 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9739-0Published: 30 November 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-2138-8Published: 05 October 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 350
Topics: Biomedicine general, Epidemiology, Public Health, Social Sciences, general
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